A NOTE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Park Avenue Armory strives to engage audiences with eclectic, immersive, and thought-provoking works that are in direct dialogue with the vast sweep of the Armory’s unique spaces, whether it is the soaring Wade Thompson Drill Hall or the intimate period rooms. And with its pristine acoustic and austere elegance, the Board of Officers Room is like no other in offering the chance to enjoy the art of the recital and music-making in the most personal of settings. The 2017 season marks the fifth year for the recital series, which continues to showcase both classical and contemporary repertoire performed by world class artists at the height of their craft. We are thrilled to introduce to the U.S. an international star in the making – Sabine Devieilhe. One of the most talented French sopranos to emerge in recent years, she makes her North American recital debut at the Armory, after dazzling audiences at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Dutch National Opera, and other opera houses throughout Europe. Barbara Hannigan, one of the world’s leading performers of contemporary opera, makes her U.S. recital debut with programs that showcase her extraordinary versatility, with an exploration of the Second Viennese School as well as the work of iconic French composer Erik Satie. Paired with our ongoing partnership with the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, the series will be featuring exciting new voices not seen elsewhere in New York. We continue to explore new directions with the acclaimed Wu Man and the esteemed Shanghai Quartet, who together perform new works by contemporary Chinese composers. And by using both the Board of Officers and Veterans Rooms for one recital, we are invited to enjoy the vocal artistry and multiple facets of musicianship of tenor Lawrence Brownlee in a progressive concert that presents his classical repertoire from lieder and opera to jazz songs and American spirituals, teaming up for the second part with pianist Jason Moran. In a program of works by Copland, Berlioz, Schuman, and Poulenc, we are thrilled to welcome for the first time to the Armory, the distinguished British mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly. Finally, the electrifying violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, one of the most dynamic and original classical music soloists in the world, works with cellist Jay Campbell in a program of duets. This year’s lineup offers audiences even more chances to enjoy the intimacy of a beautiful range of chamber music experiences performed by artists with a highly distinctive international profile. I hope you will join in my excitement for witnessing these magical moments in music. Pierre Audi Artistic Director
2017 RECITAL SERIES IN THE RESTORED BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM
monday, october 9 at 7:30pm tuesday, october 10 at 7:30pm Thompson Arts Center at Park Avenue Armory
PATRICIA KOPATCHINSKAJA, violin JAY CAMPBELL, cello
The Recital Series is supported in part by The Reed Foundation. The Recital Series is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Support for Park Avenue Armory’s artistic season has been generously provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Altman Foundation, The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, the Achelis and Bodman Foundation, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation, the Marc Haas Foundation, The Kaplen Brothers Fund, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation, the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, and the Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation.
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PROGRAM Giacinto Scelsi
Movement I from Duo for violin and cello
Traditional Winchester Troper Orlando Gibbons
Fantasia
Jörg Widmann (b.1973) Duos for violin and cello XXI Valse bavaroise XXIV Toccatina all'inglese Maurice Ravel
Sonata for violin and cello
Intermission Michael Hersch (b.1971)
“...das Rückgrat berstend” for violin/speaker and cello (2017, World Premiere)
Guillaume de Machaut
Biaute qui toutes autres pere, B4
Iannis Xenakis
Dhipli Zyia
György Ligeti
Hommage à Hilding Rosenberg
Zoltan Kodály
Duo for violin and cello, Op.7
This performance is approximately one hour and forty five minutes in length, performed with intermission.
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM Ever since composers learned to use three- and four-part polyphony in the Middle Ages, “biphony” became rarer as it seemed somehow incomplete. Although string instruments could play double and triple stops, the general preference was for string trios if not quartets or quintets to produce a fuller, more saturated sound. For a long time, therefore, a string duo has represented a special challenge that composers tackled only infrequently until the 20th century. In Giacinto Scelsi's Duo (a two-movement work of which we will hear the first half ) one seems to be witnessing a moment right after the creation of the world, when only a single note existed. The one pitch around which the piece revolves “spreads” upward and downward, reaching other pitches that are only a quarter-tone higher or lower: this “pitch continuum” contains endless possibilities with respect to timbre, register and dynamics. The Winchester Troper is one of the earliest collections of notated polyphony, dating from 11th-century England. The manuscript contains more than 160 two-part organa, or chant melodies with an extra voice added. At this early stage, the second voice followed the first closely, often in parallel intervals and was little more than an ornamental addition (called “trope”) to the chant. Jumping ahead 600 years, we reach Orlando Gibbons, an English composer whose fantasias were originally written for viols, a family of Renaissance string instruments. In 2008, Jörg Widmann composed 24 duos for violin and cello, from which we shall hear three. One of the most prominent composers of his generation (also a great clarinetist), Widmann always finds new ways of looking at the musical tradition. In the preface to the score, Widmann noted that he wrote a good part of the duos during a stay in Dubai—a fact symbolic, perhaps, of the distance from which the Munich native seems to be viewing the “Bavarian Waltz.” The same circumstance may also explain the “homesickness” he expresses in four “strophes,” or variations on the same melody, played with metal practice mutes. Maurice Ravel's sonata for violin and cello was evidently inspired by Kodály's duo written a few years earlier. It is an interesting case of mutual influence, for the young Kodály’s visit to Paris in 1907 and his encounter with the music of Debussy and Ravel had a decisive impact on his whole career. The two works share a taste for pentatonic melodies built of symmetrical phrases and a predilection for the interval of the perfect fourth. But Ravel mixed pentatonic elements with daring dissonances and rhythmic complexities all his own. The sonata is one of Ravel's most modernistic works that opened
the door to many future developments in 20th-century music. The unity of the work is strengthened by numerous melodic links between the sonata's four movements. A native of Washington, DC, Michael Hersch, whose violin concerto was premiered by Ms. Kopatchinskaja in 2015, has previously written a major work, Carrion-Miles to Purgatory, for violin and cello. Emotionally intense yet resolutely modernistic in his language, Hersch is widely recognized as a major voice on the contemporary music scene. Guillaume de Machaut was one of the first great composer personalities in the Western world to have left us a vast body of work in a recognizably personal style. The piece we are about to hear, one of many love songs written by this member of the clergy, exhibits his fondness for cross-rhythms and unusual chromatic inflections. Freedom fighter, architect, and composer, Iannis Xenakis was a unique figure in the music of the 20th century. Dhipli Zyia, written in 1952 but not performed until 2000, is a very early work. It is related to a vocal piece called Zyia, a setting of a Greek patriotic text, written around the same time and also long suppressed. In this “double Zyia,” or “Zyia for two,” one hears asymmetrical rhythmic patterns derived from Greek folk music, with a slower melodic section in the middle. György Ligeti made his own contribution to the violin-cello repertoire in 1982, when he composed a brief piece for the 90th birthday of the eminent Swedish composer Hilding Rosenberg. The year was 1982, a time when Ligeti, a leading figure of the European avant-garde, started to re-embrace certain elements of classical composition. At the beginning of the 20th century, Zoltán Kodály sought, and found, a specifically Hungarian style in music, based on elements of the old Hungarian peasant music that he and Béla Bartók had started to explore. Kodály combined these elements with a personal brand of introverted lyricism in several great chamber-music works including the present Duo. The heroic opening of the Duo came to Kodály soon after the outbreak of World War I. The tone of the first movement, in spite of the presence of some lyrical moments, remains tense and dramatic throughout. Even the intimate slow movement works its way up to a searing climax in the middle. After a maestoso beginning, Kodály introduces a folk dance in the last movement as the tragic mood gives way to exuberant happiness. —Peter Laki
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM “... das Rückgrat berstend” for violin/speaker and cello (2017) Michael Hersch (b.1971) Commissioned by Patricia Kopatchinskaja Text by Christopher Middleton (1926-2015) World Premiere Performances October 9-10, 2017 Board of Officers Room Thompson Arts Center at Park Avenue Armory New York, NY Patricia Kopatchinskaja on the Music of Michael Hersch “Among contemporary composers, one of the most urgent and compelling voices is Michael Hersch … I want to lend Hersch my forces because he faces our pain with urgency, honesty, and dignity. That’s why I play his music.” —Patricia Kopatchinskaja (Strings Magazine, January 2017) "And I really believe that the U.S. composer Michael Hersch … follows after the likes of Kurtág and Ligeti in having a crystal clear, unconditional voice. There is no superficial beauty or decoration, and no compromises - everything is in the right place, crafted as if with a scalpel. I don't know of any music of my generation that touches me so much and leaves me speechless, and is also without any contradiction.” —Patricia Kopatchinskaja (BBC Music Magazine, June 2016)
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Text by Christopher Middleton
Translated by Wolfgang Justen
We are rushing toward some constellation ... Onhurled by bricks and poisons, claws to grope and probe gardens that contain a rose or two, with any luck ...
Wir rasen auf irgendein Gestirn zu... Vorangeschleudert von Stein und Giftgasen, Pranken, um Gärten zu durchstöbern und durchsuchen, Ob noch eine Rose wüchse, vielleicht zwei, mit etwas Glück...
From an open grate in an angle of the wall ... Dry vine leaves and a few dead flies on fire ...
Von einem offenen Gitter in einem Winkel der Mauer... Verwelkte Rankenblätter Und ein paar tote Fliegen am Verbrennen...
... the spine exploding like a tower in air.
...das Rückgrat berstend wie ein Turm in der Luft.
Emptiness ... fill it with, I don’t know, Something, not with toys, not with mythologies, fill it … with solid villages, or seas ...
Leere... Füll sie mit, ich weiss nicht, Irgendetwas, nicht mit Kindereien, nicht mit Mythologien, Füll sie...mit festen Städten, oder Ozeanen...
Fill the emptiness or it will tear off heads ...
Füll die Leere, oder sie wird Köpfe abreissen...
... the heads, howl and tumble, torn off ... Not much to hold on to ...
...die Köpfe heulen und rollen, abgerissen... Nicht viel da, um Halt zu geben...
What is there to catch but absence ...
Was gibt es da zu fassen ausser Verlassenheit...
The tentative figures will not bind up the wound. They are part of the great heave, over and over inflicting it The splitting of this mind at that moment when flesh took ...
Die fahlen Schemen werden die Wunde nicht verbinden. Sie sind Teil des schweren Atemstosses, ihn uns immer wieder auferlegend, Die Spaltung dieses Bewusstseins in dem Augenblick, da es Fleisch wurde...
The abyss, Unaccountable.
Der Abgrund, Unberechenbar.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja's versatility shows itself in her diverse repertoire, ranging from baroque and classical often played on gut strings, to new commissions and reinterpretations of modern masterworks. Kopatchinskaja’s 2017-2018 season commences with the world premiere of her new project Dies Irae at the Lucerne Festival where she will be artiste étoile. Dies Irae is her second staged program following the success of Bye Bye Beethoven with Mahler Chamber Orchestra in 2016, and uses the theme from the Latin Requiem Mass as a starting point for her new concept featuring music from Gregorian Chant and Early Baroque to Giacinto Scelsi and Galina Ustwolskaja. The North American premiere will take place at the Ojai Festival in June 2018 where Kopatchinskaja will be Music Director. György Ligeti’s Violin Concerto is again a feature of Kopatchinskaja’s season – she will perform it with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the Enescu Festival in Bucharest under Rafael Payare, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, and Aurora Orchestra under Nicholas Collon as part of the Southbank Centre’s Ligeti weekend where she will also perform the Horn Trio with Pierre-Laurent Aimard and MarieLuise Neunecker. The Stravinsky Violin Concerto will also be a prominent work which she will perform with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Alain Altinoglu in London, on tour around Europe, with Teodor Currentzis and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and with Gustavo Gimeno and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
Jay Campbell appearing at such leading venues as the Berlin Konzerthaus, London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus, and Concertgebouw Amsterdam. She is also an Artistic Partner with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and performs with the ensemble regularly, both in Saint Paul and internationally. They undertook a major European tour together in November 2016, to coincide with the release of a new CD recording of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden. In addition to her engagment at Park Avenue Armory, Kopatchinskaja's 20172018 season includes a series of recitals around Europe with pianist Polina Leschenko including London’s Wigmore Hall, Berlin’s Boulez Saal, and the Vienna Konzerthaus. A prolific recording artist, the last few seasons have seen a number of major releases; an album of Kancheli’s music with Gidon Kremer and the Kremerata Baltica, a disc of duos entitled TAKE TWO on Alpha Classics, a recording of Schumann’s Violin Concerto and Fantasy with WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln under Heinz Holliger for Audite, and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with Teodor Currentzis and Musica Aeterna on the Sony label. Kopatchinskaja’s release for Naïve Classique featuring concerti by Bartók, Ligeti, and Peter Eötvös won Gramophone’s Recording of the Year Award in 2013, an ECHO Klassik Award, and a 2014 Grammy nomination. Her latest release Death and the Maiden, for Alpha with The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra has received great critical acclaim.
Last season’s highlights included serving as Artist-in-Residence at four major European venues and festivals: at the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Lucerne Festival, London’s Wigmore Hall, and the Kissinger Sommer Festival. She also embarked on two major European tours: with Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg under Gustavo Gimeno and with Wiener Symphoniker and Musica Aeterna both under the baton of Teodor Currentzis. She performed the Ligeti Violin Concerto with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker, Filharmonica della Scala under Andrés Orozco-Estrada, and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Jukka-Pekka Saraste. She also made her debut with the Gothenburg Symphony and Peter Eötvös performing his Violin Concerto DoReMi. Continuing her regular collaboration with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, she appeared with them in London and New York under Vladimir Jurowski. Chamber music is immensely important to Kopatchinskaja and she performs regularly with artists such as Markus Hinterhäuser, Polina Leschenko, Anthony Romaniuk, and 6
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American cellist Jay Campbell has already forged a reputation as a spellbinding artist. A 2016 recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, he is well known for his eclectic musical interests, having collaborated with musicians ranging from Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, David Lang, and John Zorn, to members of Radiohead and Einstürzende Neubauten. Most recently, Campbell was named artiste étoile (artist in residence) for the 2017 Lucerne Festival, the youngest ever to have achieved that distinction, which honors him with a familiar role in programming as well as performing. Last summer’s highly successful stint as artistic director of Ligeti Forward for the New York Philharmonic’s 2016 BIENNIAL underscored his outstanding contributions as both curator and performer. Working closely with Alan Gilbert, he created a three-concert series which explored Hungarian composer György Ligeti as a fountainhead of modern music; these programs spotlighted the well-known piano, violin, and cello concertos, along with works by Ligeti’s students. In addition to putting his exceptional musical knowledge to work, Campbell was also featured soloist on the second program performing Ligeti’s Cello Concerto (1966). Jay Campbell has premiered nearly one hundred works to date, including concerti by Chris Rogerson and Pulitzer Prizewinning composer David Lang. At the 2017 Lucerne Festival, he performed the Swiss premiere of Michael Van der Aa’s multimedia cello concerto Up-close, and the world premiere of a new concerto by Luca Francesconi, conducted by Matthias Pintscher. During the 2015-2016 season, he premiered a new cello concerto entitled Genus and Species, written for him by American composer David Fulmer, and co-commissioned by the Human Rights Foundation. In 2013-2014, he premiered a new recital piece written for him by John Zorn, called Occam’s Razor. Campbell’s close association with John Zorn has resulted in over a half-dozen new works for cello. Hen to Pan, a feature disc with all new compositions written for him by Zorn, was released in February 2015 and named by The New York Times in its “Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015.” Also a serious music scholar, Mr. Campbell has written an article on the music of Pierre Boulez which was published in Zorn’s Arcana VII (Tzadik Composer Series). Forthcoming discs include George Perle’s cello concerto with the Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot (Bridge); works of Beethoven, Debussy, Stravinsky, and Pintscher (Victor Elmaleh Collection); and a collection of works commissioned for Campbell by David Fulmer (Tzadik).
Other highlights include his New York Philharmonic debut performing Tan Dun’s “Silk Road Encounters” from Crouching Tiger Concerto at David Geffen Hall, and his Carnegie Hall debut with the New York Youth Symphony at Stern Auditorium, as well as a debut with the Alabama Symphony, Lucerne Festival Academy, Oakland East-Bay Symphony, The Juilliard Orchestra, and the Aspen Festival Orchestra. Among the conductors with whom he has collaborated are the late Pierre Boulez, Matthias Pintscher, Michael Morgan, Jeffrey Milarsky, Joshua Weilerstein, and Ryan McAdams. He has had the privilege of working with leading new music groups, including ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble), Ensemble intercontemporain, Da Capo Chamber Players, and the Argento Ensemble. As a chamber musician, Campbell has collaborated with members of the Arditti, Takacs, Kronos, and Afiara String Quartets, and is a member of the JACK Quartet, a piano trio with Stefan Jackiw and Conrad Tao. He has been invited to the Marlboro and Music@Menlo Festivals, and has enjoyed residencies at Vermont’s Yellow Barn Music Festival and at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Texas. Other guest appearances include the Moab, Chamber Music Northwest, Heidelberger Frühling/Germany, DITTO/Korea, Rockport Chamber Music, and Lincoln Center Festival. Recipient of awards from the BMI and ASCAP foundations, Campbell was also First Prize Winner of the 2012 Concert Artist Guild auditions, and Second Prize Winner of the 2015 Walter W. Naumburg International Cello Competition, competing against more than a hundred cellists worldwide. Born in Berkeley, California, he began playing the cello at the age of eight at the Crowden School in Berkeley. He holds an Artist Diploma, as well as bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School where he was a student of Fred Sherry. Campbell plays on a cello crafted in the 1750s by Italian luthier Paolo Antonio Testore of Milan.
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ABOUT THE ARMORY Part American palace, part industrial shed, Park Avenue Armory is dedicated to supporting unconventional works in the visual and performing arts that need non-traditional spaces for their full realization, enabling artists to create, students to explore, and audiences to consume epic and adventurous presentations that can not be mounted elsewhere in New York City. Since its first production in September 2007, the Armory has organized and commissioned immersive performances, installations, and cross-disciplinary collaborations by visionary artists, directors, and impresarios in its vast Wade Thompson Drill Hall that defy traditional categorization and to push the boundaries of their practice. In its historic period rooms, the Armory presents small-scale performances and programs, including its acclaimed Recital Series in the intimate salon setting of the Board of Officers Room and the Artists Studio series in the newly restored Veterans Room. The Armory also offers robust arts education programs at no cost to underserved New York City public school students, engaging them with the institution’s artistic programming and the building’s history and architecture. Built between 1877 and 1881, Park Avenue Armory has been hailed as containing “the single most important collection of nineteenth century interiors to survive intact in one building” by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall, with an 80-foot-high barrel vaulted roof, is one of the largest unobstructed spaces in New York City. The Armory’s magnificent reception rooms were designed by leaders of the American Aesthetic Movement, among them Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, Candace Wheeler, and Herter Brothers. The building is currently undergoing a $210-million renovation designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Platt Byard Dovell White Architects as Executive Architects.
PARK AVENUE ARMORY STAFF Rebecca Robertson, President and Executive Producer Pierre Audi, Artistic Director Matthew Bird, Deputy Director of Development Jenni Bowman, Producer Hanna Brody, Special Events Coordinator David Burnhauser, Collection Manager Courtney F. Caldwell, Venue Events Manager Leandro Dasso, Porter Khemraj Dat, Accountant John Davis, Facilities Director Jordana De La Cruz, Program Manager Mayra DeLeon, Porter Sam DeRubeis, Building Engineer Melanie Forman, Chief Development Officer Alexander Frenkel, Controller Lissa Frenkel, Managing Director Sharlyn Galarza, Education Assistant Pip Gengenbach, Education Coordinator Kirsten Harvey, Production Assistant Reginald Hunter, Building Mechanic Cassidy Jones, Education Director Chelsea Emelie Kelly, Youth Corps Manager Paul King, Director of Production Allison Kline, Director of Foundation and Government Relations Nicholas Lazzaro, Technical Director Jennifer Levine, Director of Special Events Michael Lonergan, Producing Director Wayne Lowery, Director of External Operations Aidan Nelson, Production Assistant Lars Nelson, Technical Director Lori Nelson, Executive Assistant to the President
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Timothy Nim, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer Drew Petersen, Education Special Projects Manager Anna Pillow, Office Manager Charmaine Portis, Executive Assistant to the Chief Development Officer Morgan Powell, Individual Giving Coordinator Kirsten Reoch, Director of Design and Construction Rachel Risso-Gill, Associate Director of Individual Giving Erik Rogers, Production Coordinator Matthew Rymkiewicz, Tessitura Database Manager William Say, Superintendent Melissa Stone, Manager of Special Events Tom Trayer, Director of Marketing Brandon Walker, Technical Director Jessica Wasilewski, Producer Monica Weigel McCarthy, Associate Director of Education Avery Willis Hoffman, Program Director Nick Yarbrough, Digital Marketing Manager Olga Cruz, Mario Esquilin, Carlos Goris, Victor Lora, Josthen Noboa, Candice Rushin, Antonio Sanders, Porters Coral Cohen, House Manager Kara Kaufman, Erik Olson, Box Office Managers Summer 2017 Youth Corps Fatima Bah, Mosammat Jannat Begum, Eliana Boyd, Alyssa Carde, Chanse Catlyn, Koralys De La Cruz, Zeinebou Dia, Saran Diawara, Luis González, Chamonte Greenfield, Rabia Khan Laraib, Oyon Lotif, Alexa Maldonado, Cindy Mendoza, Christian Montan, Anai Ortiz
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NEXT IN THE RECITAL SERIES BARBARA HANNIGAN, soprano REINBERT DE LEEUW, piano november 16–18
“Barbara Hannigan sings the songs of Erik Satie as if she’s sitting next to you, whispering and cooing across the kitchen table with sufficient breathiness, soft edges and exquisite spaciousness to match Reinbert de Leeuw’s sweetmelancholy piano chords.” —The Guardian (UK) Barbara Hannigan has made a name for herself as a muse and collaborator with a number of legendary composers, creating roles on leading opera stages around the world by adding a kind of virtuosity that contemporary music has rarely seen before. The soprano comes to the Board of Officers Room to make her U.S. recital debut with programs that showcase her versatility and superb musicianship. She opens her residency with an artfully curated look at the Second Viennese School, where new musical language was developed through the extraordinary collaboration between composers, painters, writers, and other artists in the city’s salons and cafes at the turn of the century. She then looks to Paris to explore the work of Erik Satie, from art songs written in his early career to his magnum opus Socrate, in a unique program performed with renowned Satie interpreter Reinbert de Leeuw. Second Viennese School (November 16): Program to include works by Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Zemlinsky, Alma Mahler, Wolf All-Erik Satie (November 18): Program to include art songs, solo piano works, and Socrate
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NEXT AT THE ARMORY RASHAAD NEWSOME
A ROOM IN INDIA (UNE CHAMBER EN INDE)
“[Newsome’s] work is irreverent and brazen. It is deeply referential. It is decisive. It is disruptive. It is king.” — Forbes
“it is a spectacle full of surprises…a joyful, funny, four hour show, even as it collides with the evil of our world…It is theater as Mnouchkine likes it: alive, dynamic, colorful, sung-danced, corporal and stylized” — Le Monde
december 5–20
november 7
Rashaad Newsome is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is deeply invested in how images used in media and popular culture communicate distorted notions of power and status. He comes to the Armory to premiere Running, a new immersive performance evoking an abstract portrait of soul created through light and voice. Running is centered on the musicology term for a singer’s improvised embellishment; a “vocal run” is a rapid series of ascending or descending musical notes sung in quick succession. Running is a vocal effect that spans a variety of musical genres from the 19th century to today. Newsome’s stirring performance features three local New York City vocalists performing an original score composed by the artist, which incorporates samples of vocal runs by Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, Marvin Gaye, B.B. King, James Brown, and Kelly Price, among others.
The matriarch of exploratory French theater Ariane Mnouchkine and her visionary theater company Théâtre du Soleil return for the North American premiere of this epic new work, which follows the adventures of a touring French theater company stranded in India without a director while the world around them falls into disarray. Touching on pressing issues that societies around the globe are currently facing from terrorism and religious extremism to climate change and gender equality, the expansive affair is a manifesto of the power of theater to heal a community, as well as an exploration of how to talk about the chaos of a world that has become incomprehensible.
DOMINIQUE EADE & RAN BLAKE WITH KAVITA SHAH november 21
“[Blake and Eade] can instantly access deep emotional and musical essences. Each sings with an admirably unadorned purity…chilling the bones and soothing the soul.” —Downbeat “Shah’s music reflects the insatiably curious mind of an ethnographer, the soul of a poet, and the eye of a painter.” — WNPR The influences and improvisational fluidity of jazz take center stage in a thrilling double bill of artists who infuse their sets with unique musical cultures and perspectives. Known for reshaping mostly familiar melodies into art songs with their genre-blurring mastery of jazz, blues, classical, folk, and gospel music, vocalist Dominique Eade and pianist Ran Blake showcase their strikingly unique harmonies, lyrical force, and evocative atmospheres with a set that includes songs from their latest release—Town and Country—as well as other standards, originals, and tributes. Kavita Shah seamlessly weaves together diverse cultural traditions into her jazz-based repertoire, from the Indian table and West African kora to African and Brazilian rhythms, placing seemingly eclectic songs, instruments, and artists in dialogue with one another to create a new type of jazz with global sensibilities that defies categorization. 10
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OTHER HAPPENINGS AT THE ARMORY ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE
INTERROGATIONS OF FORM: CONVERSATION SERIES
Held in our historic period rooms, these insightful conversations throughout the year feature artists, scholars, cultural leaders, and social trailblazers who gather to offer new points of view and unique perspectives on Armory productions, explore a range of themes and relevant topics, and encourage audiences to think beyond conventional interpretations and perspectives of art.
MALKIN LECTURE SERIES
Each fall, the popular Malkin Lecture Series presents scholars and experts on topics relating to the Armory and the civic, cultural, and aesthetic life of New York City in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Lecture topics have ranged from history makers like Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt to Gilded Age society’s favorite restaurants and the Hudson River painters.
ARMORY AFTER HOURS
Salon culture has enlivened art since the 19th century, when friends gathered in elegant chambers to hear intimate performances and share artistic insights. Join us following select performances for libations with fellow attendees as we revive this tradition in our historic period rooms. You may also get to talk with the evening’s artists, who often greet friends and audience members following their performances.
Launched in 2010, the Armory’s artist-in-residence program supports artists across genres in the creation and development of new work. Each artist sets up a studio in one of the Armory’s period rooms, providing a unique backdrop that can serve as both inspiration and as a collaborator in their project development. Residencies also include participation in the Armory’s arts education program with artists working closely with the Armory’s Youth Corps interns. This season’s artists-inresidence include playwright and screenwriter Lynn Nottage, Cuban installation and performace artist Tania Bruguera, composer and guitarist Marvin Sewell, choreographer and flexn dance pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray and his company the D.R.E.A.M. Ring, and photographer and visual artist Carrie Mae Weems. Previous Armory artists-in-residence have included inventive theater company 600 Highwaymen; theater artists Taylor Mac and Machine Dazzle; writer, director, and production designer Andrew Ondrejcak; vocalist, composer, and cultural worker Imani Uzuri; dancer and choreographer Wally Cardona; visual artist and choreographer Jason Akira Somma; soprano Lauren Flanigan; writer Sasha Frere-Jones; Trusty Sidekick Theater Company; vocalist-songwriter Somi; multidisciplinary performer Okwui Okpokwasili; choreographer Faye Driscoll; artist Ralph Lemon; visual artist Alex Dolan; musician Meredith Monk; sound artist Marina Rosenfeld; string quartet ETHEL; playwright and director Young Jean Lee; vocalist and artist Helga Davis; director, designer, and musician Julian Crouch; performance artist John Kelly; and Shen Wei Dance Arts; among others.
HISTORIC INTERIORS TOURS
Get an insider’s look at the Armory with a guided walking tour of the building with our staff historian. From the soaring 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall to the extraordinary interiors designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, Herter Brothers, and others, and learn about the design plans by acclaimed architects Herzog & de Meuron.
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$200 is tax deductible
All benefits of the Friend membership plus: »» Fees waived on ticket exchanges* »» Free admission for you and a guest to guided tours of the Armory*** »» Discount on tickets to the Malkin Lecture Series* »» Discount on tickets to Artist Talks and Public Programs*
All benefits of the Supporter membership plus: »» Members concierge ticket service »» Free admission for two additional guests to visual art installations »» Access to VIP lounge during performance intermissions »» Two complimentary passes to an art fair**
All benefits of the Associate membership plus: »» Recognition in Armory printed programs »» No wait, no line ticket pick up at the patron desk »» Handling fees waived on ticket purchases* »» Invitation to a private Chairman’s Circle event for you and a guest »» Two complimentary tickets to the Under Construction Series, Recital Series, or Artists Studio*
Members of this exclusive group are offered unique and intimate opportunities to experience the Armory, including invitations to private tours and VIP receptions with world-class artists, access to priority seating and the Armory’s concierge ticket service.
SUPPORTER $250
$370 is tax deductible
$780 is tax deductible
CHAIRMAN’S CIRCLE STARTING AT $2,500
$70 is tax deductible
ASSOCIATE $500
BENEFACTOR $1,000
The Avant-Garde is a forward-thinking group of Park Avenue Armory supporters in their 20s to 30s that offers a deeper, more intimate connection to the unique and creative concepts behind the Armory’s mission. Members receive exclusive benefits throughout the year, including priority ticketing, special receptions, viewings, talks, and VIP events.
EDUCATION COMMITTEE $5,000 AND UP The Armory’s arts education program reaches thousands of public school students each year, immersing them in the creative process of exceptional visual and performing artists and teaching them to explore their own creative instincts. Education Committee members are invited to special events, meetings, and workshops that allow them to witness the students’ progress and contribute to the growth of the program. For more information about membership, please call (212) 616-3958 e-mail members@armoryonpark.org. For information on ticketing, or to purchase tickets, please call the Box Office at (212) 933-5812 *Subject to ticket availability **Certain restrictions apply ***Reservations required
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PARK AVENUE ARMORY BOARD OF DIRECTORS Co-Chairman Elihu Rose, PhD. Co-Chairman Adam R. Flatto President and Executive Producer Rebecca Robertson
Marina Abramović Harrison M. Bains Wendy Belzberg Emma Bloomberg Martin Brand Cora Cahan Peter C. Charrington Hélène Comfort Paul Cronson Emme Levin Deland Sanford B. Ehrenkranz David Fox Marjorie L. Hart Edward G. Klein, Major General NYNG (Ret.) Ken Kuchin Mary T. Kush
Pablo Legorreta Ralph Lemon Heidi McWilliams David S. Moross Gwendolyn Adams Norton Joel Press Genie H. Rice Amanda J.T. Riegel Janet C. Ross Joan Steinberg Emanuel Stern Mimi Klein Sternlicht Angela E. Thompson Deborah C. van Eck Founding Chairman, 2000-2009 Wade F.B. Thompson
PARK AVENUE ARMORY ARTISTIC COUNCIL Co-Chairs Noreen Buckfire Michael Field Caryn Schacht and David Fox Heidi and Tom McWilliams
Wendy Belzberg and Strauss Zelnick Sonja and Martin J. Brand A. Cary Brown and Steven Epstein Elizabeth Coleman Hélène and Stuyvesant Comfort Emme and Jonathan Deland Krystyna Doerfler Olivia and Adam Flatto Janet Halvorson Anita K. Hersh Wendy Keys Ken Kuchin and Tyler Morgan Almudena and Pablo Legorreta Chad A. Leat Aaron Lieber and Bruce Horten
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Christina and Alan MacDonald Elizabeth and Frank Newman Janet and David P. Nolan Gwen and Peter Norton Slobodan Randjelović and Jon Stryker Richard and Amanda J.T. Riegel Susan and Elihu Rose Janet C. Ross Susan Rudin Joan and Michael Steinberg Liz and Emanuel Stern Mimi Klein Sternlicht Deborah C. van Eck Mary Wallach
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SUPPORTERS Park Avenue Armory expresses its deep appreciation to the individuals and organizations listed here for their generous support for its annual and capital campaigns. $1,000,000 + Charina Endowment Fund Empire State Local Development Corporation Richard and Ronay Menschel New York City Council and Council Member Daniel R. Garodnick New York City Department of Cultural Affairs The Pershing Square Foundation Susan and Elihu Rose The Arthur Ross Foundation and J & AR Foundation Joan and Joel Smilow The Thompson Family Foundation Wade F.B. Thompson* The Zelnick/Belzberg Charitable Trust Anonymous $500,000 to $999,999 Lisa and Sanford B. Ehrenkranz Almudena and Pablo Legorreta The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Assemblymember Dan Quart and the New York State Assembly Adam R. Rose and Peter R. McQuillan Donna and Marvin Schwartz Liz and Emanuel Stern $250,000 to $499,999 American Express Citi Michael Field Olivia and Adam Flatto Ken Kuchin and Tyler Morgan The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation Marshall Rose Family Foundation $100,000 to $249,999 The Achelis and Bodman Foundations R. Mark and Wendy Adams Altman Foundation Linda and Earle S. Altman Bloomberg Philanthropies Booth Ferris Foundation Sonja and Martin J. Brand The W. L. Lyons Brown Jr. Charitable Foundation Hélène and Stuyvesant Comfort Emme and Jonathan Deland Marjorie and Gurnee Hart Kirkland & Ellis LLP Mary T. Kush Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Malkin and The Malkin Fund, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Lester S. Morse, Jr. New York State Assembly David P. Nolan Foundation 14
Gwen and Peter Norton Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Janet C. Ross Caryn Schacht and David Fox Amy and Jeffrey Silverman Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Joan and Michael Steinberg M K Reichert Sternlicht Foundation Mr. William C. Tomson Deborah C. van Eck $25,000 to $99,999 Benigno Aguilar and Gerald Erickson The Avenue Association Harrison and Leslie Bains Emma Bloomberg Carolyn S. Brody Janna Bullock The Cowles Charitable Trust Caroline and Paul Cronson Mary Cronson / Evelyn Sharp Foundation Ellie and Edgar Cullman Drake / Anderson Stuart J. Ellman and Susan H.B. Ellman The Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Foundation Andrew L. Farkas, Island Capital Group & C-III Capital Partners Mr. and Mrs. Martin Geller Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation Howard Gilman Foundation Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Allen and Deborah Grubman Agnes Gund Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Gundlach Anita K. Hersh Josefin and Paul Hilal Daniel Clay Houghton Anna Maria & Stephen Kellen Foundation, Inc. and Marina Kellen French La Perla Chad A. Leat Leon Levy Foundation Aaron Lieber and Bruce Horten Christina and Alan MacDonald Christine & Richard Mack Marc Haas Foundation National Endowment for the Arts New York State Council on the Arts Stavros Niarchos Foundation Donald Pels Charitable Trust Slobodan Randjelović and Jon Stryker The Reed Foundation Rhodebeck Charitable Trust Genie and Donald Rice Amanda J.T. and Richard E. Riegel Rebecca Robertson and Byron Knief Susan Rudin Nicholas and Shelley Schorsch The Shubert Foundation Sydney and Stanley S. Shuman Peter and Jaar-mel Sloane / Heckscher Foundation armoryonpark.org
The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation Sanford L. Smith Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia Sharzad and Michael Targoff TEFAF NY Thor Industries, Inc. Tishman Construction, an AECOM Company Robert Vila and Diana Barrett Anonymous (3) $10,000 to $24,999 ADCO Electrical Corporation Gina Addeo AR Global Investments, LLC Ginette Becker and Joshua A. Becker* Noreen and Ken Buckfire Marco Cafuzzi Eileen Campbell and Struan Robertson Elizabeth Coleman Con Edison Mrs. Daniel Cowin Gina and James de Givenchy Jennie L. and Richard K. DeScherer Krystyna Doerfler Jeanne Donovan Fisher William F. Draper Peggy and Millard Drexler Andra and John Ehrenkranz Florence Fearrington Ella M. Foshay and Michael B. Rothfeld Kiendl and John Gordon Jeff and Kim Greenberg Janet Halvorson Molly Butler Hart and Michael D. Griffin Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin Rachel and Mike Jacobellis William and Elizabeth Kahane Kaplen Brothers Fund Erin and Alex Klatskin Suzie and Bruce Kovner Jill and Peter Kraus The Leonard and Judy Lauder Fund Mr. and Mrs. Fernand Lamesch Richard H. Levy & Lorraine Gallard Kamie and Richard Lightburn Lili Lynton and Michael Ryan Andrea Markezin and Joel Press Cynthia Woods Mitchell Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation Patty Newburger and Bradley Wechsler Elizabeth and Frank Newman Northern Bay Contractors, Inc. Nancy and Morris W. Offit PBDW Architects LLP Joan and Joel I. Picket Katharine and William Rayner Roberto Cavalli Mary Jane Robertson and James A. Clark Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Rosen May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. William Sandholm Oscar S. Schafer Stacy Schiff and Marc de la Bruyere Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Sculco Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon Sotheby's Patricia Brown Specter Dr. and Mrs. Eugene E. Stark, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Stevenson Michael and Veronica Stubbs Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Tishman Speyer Properties, LP Barbara and Donald Tober Jane and Robert Toll Christopher Tsai and André Stockamp Mary Wallach Mike Weil and Shirley Madhere-Weil William Morris Endeavor Entertainment Foundation $5,000 to $9,999 ABS Partners Real Estate, LLC Jody and John Arnhold Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Abigail Baratta Mr. and Mrs. Victor Barnett Tony Bechara The David Berg Foundation, Inc. Sara Steinhardt Berman Debra and Leon Black Nicholas Brawer Catherine and Robert Brawer Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Tom and Meredith Brokaw Amy Brown Amanda M. Burden Marian and Russell Burke CBRE Betsy Cohn Sarah and Ronald Collins Margaret Crotty and Rory Riggs Constance and Gregory Dalvito Diana Davenport and John Bernstein Joan K. Davidson (The J.M. Kaplan Fund) Antoinette Delruelle and Joshua L. Steiner Liz Diller and Ricardo Scofidio Mary Ellen G. Dundon Eagle Capital Management, L.L.C. David and Frances Eberhart Foundation Karen Eckhoff Ehrenkranz & Ehrenkranz LLP Dr. Nancy Eppler-Wolff and Mr. John Wolff Alicia Ernst and John Katzman EverGreene Architectural Arts The Felicia Fund Bart Friedman and Wendy A. Stein Inger McCabe Elliott Barbara and Peter Georgescu The Georgetown Company Mr. and Mrs. Trevor Gibbons Debbi Gibbs Richard Gilder and Lois Chiles Mr. and Mrs. David Golub Sarah Gould and David Steinhardt Jamee and Peter Gregory
Gunther E. Greiner Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hite Nancy Josephson Hon. Bruce M. Kaplan and Janet Yaseen Kaplan Jennie Kassanoff and Dan Schulman Adrienne Katz Lazard Sahra T. Lese Gail and Alan Levenstein Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Levine James C. Marlas and Marie Nugent-Head Marlas Diane and Adam E. Max Véronique Mazard and Andrew Vogel Joyce F. Menschel Adriana and Robert Mnuchin Christine Moog and Benoit Helluy Mr. and Mrs. Robert Morse Mr. and Mrs. Saleem Muqaddam Mary Kathryn Navab Mr. and Mrs. Michael Newhouse Peter and Beverly Orthwein Madison J Papp Liz and Jeff Peek Ron Perelman and Anna Chapman Susan Porter Anne and Skip Pratt Preserve New York, a grant program of Preservation League of New York Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pruzan David Remnick and Esther Fein Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Ruesch Michael D. Rhea Jonathan F.P. and Diana Rose Liz Rosen and Michael Rozen Ida and William Rosenthal Foundation Chuck and Stacy Rosenzweig Deborah and Chuck Royce Valerie Rubsamen and Cedomir Crnkovic H.O. Ruding and Renee Ruding-Hekking Jeanne Ruesch Bonnie J. Sacerdote Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Sackler Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Sagansky Susan and Charles Sawyers Claude Shaw and Lara Meiland-Shaw Stephanie and Fred Shuman Lea Simonds Daisy M. Soros Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Soros Elizabeth Stribling and Guy Robinson The Jay and Kelly Sugarman Foundation Michael Tuch Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Ulrich Liliana Vaamonde and Richard Pretsfelder Anastasia Vournas and J. William Uhrig Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Weingarten David Reed Weinreb Valda Witt and Jay Hatfield Mr. and Mrs. David Wolf Cynthia Young and George Eberstadt Richard and Franny Heller Zorn Anonymous (3)
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$2,500 to $4,999 Ark Restaurants Corp. Patrick Baldoni, Femenella & Associates, Inc. Mr. and Ms. Jonathan Berger Judy and Howard Berkowitz Mr. and Mrs. Robert Birnbaum Cathleen P. Black and Thomas E. Harvey Allison M. Blinken Marc Brodherson and Sarah Ryan Stacey Bronfman Veronica Bulgari and Stephan Haimo Mr. and Mrs. Donald Calder Cartier S.A. Alexandre and Lori Chemla Mr. and Mrs. David Cohen Emy Cohenca Mr. and Mrs. Tony Coles Connelly & McLaughlin Creative Artists Agency The Cultivist Sasha Cutter and Aaron Hsu Joshua Dachs / Fisher Dachs Associates Theatre Planning and Design Virginia Davies and Willard Taylor Richard and Barbara Debs Luis y Cora Delgado Francesca and Michael Donner Denise Simon and Paulo Vieiradacunha Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Duda Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Alice and David Elgart Mr. and Mrs. Jared Feldman Laura Jane Finn Edmée and Nicholas Firth Fisher Marantz Stone, Inc. Megan Flanigan Claudia Fleming & George Bitar Amandine and Steve Freidheim Teri Friedman and Babak Yaghmaie Sylvia Golden Marjorie and Ellery Gordon Elizabeth and David Granville-Smith Great Performances Marieline Grinda and Ahmad Deek Susan Gutfreund John Hargraves Roger and Susan Hertog Augusta Hoffman and Jonathan Swygert Mr. and Mrs. Morton Janklow Nancy Kestenbaum and David Klafter Diana King / The Charles & Lucille King Family Foundation Elizabeth Kivlan Knickerbocker Greys Phyllis L. Kossoff Justin Kush Lagunitas Brewing Co. The Ronald and Jo Carole Lauder Foundation Bonnie Englebardt Lautenberg Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lehrman Phyllis Levin Lisson Gallery Elizabeth Lubnina Heather Lubov Judith and Michael Margulies Angela Mariani 15
Nina B. Matis Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Mayberry, Jr. Constance and H. Roemer McPhee Mr. and Mrs. William Michaelcheck Sergio and Malu Millerman Claire Milonas Sally Minard and Norton Garfinkle Barbara and Howard Morse Stephanie Newhouse Kathleen O'Grady David Orentreich, MD / Orentreich Family Foundation Mario Palumbo George Petrides Joseph Piacentile Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Frank and Kimba Richardson Heidi Rieger Susan and Jon Rotenstreich Jane Fearer Safer Dr. and Ms. Nathan Saint-Amand Caroline Schmidt-Barnett Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Schulhof Sara Lee and Axel Schupf Lise Scott and D. Ronald Daniel Alan and Sandy Siegel Laura Skoler Stephanie and Dick Solar Sara Solomon Sonnier & Castle Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Spahn Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Satnick Douglas C. Steiner Diane and Sam Stewart Angeline Straka Mr. and Mrs. Tom Strauss Bill and Ellen Taubman Lindsey Turner Jan and Cynthia van Eck Herbert P. Van Ingen Ambassador and Mrs. William J. vanden Heuvel Susan and Kevin Walsh Diana Wege Mati Weiderpass Jacqueline Weld Drake Katherine Wenning and Michael Dennis Kate R. Whitney and Franklin A. Thomas Michael Woloz Amy Yenkin and Robert Usdan Zubatkin Owner Representation, LLC Anonymous $1,000 to $2,499 Marina Abramović Ian and Lindsey Adelman Mr. and Mrs. John Argenti Rebecca Lynn Bagdonas Steve Bakunas Joslyn Barnes and Anita Nayar Norton Belknap Kristine Bell Dale and Max Berger Katherine Birch Hana Bitton Bluestem Prairie Foundation Dr. Suzy and Mr. Lincoln Boehm Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Bonovitz 16
Barbara Brandt Mr. and Mrs. Louis Brause Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Butler Cora Cahan and Bernard Gersten Chanda Chapin Shirin and Kasper Christoffersen Alexander Cooper Jessica and David Cosloy Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Crisses Austen and Ernesto Cruz Boykin Curry Mr. and Mrs. Charles Daniels Jiggs Davis Christina R. Davis Suzanne Dawson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas de Neufville Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Deane Jeffrey Deitch Diana Diamond and John Alschuler Jacqueline Didier and Noah Schienfeld Mr. and Mrs. Marty Eisenberg Amy Grovas Elliott Leland and Jane Englebardt Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Farmakis Amy Fine Collins and Bradley Collins Ann Fitzpatrick Brown Dr. and Mrs. Walter Flamenbaum Paul and Jody Fleming Scott Fulmer and Susan Kittenplan Fulmer Mr. and Mrs. Scott Gerber Kathleen and David Glaymon Nina Gorrissen von Maltzahn Mr. and Mrs. Peter Greenleaf Mr. and Mrs. George Grunebaum Jessica Guff Harvey and Kathleen Guion Cheryl Haines Robert H. Haines Stephanie Hessler Maria Hidrobo Kaufman and Gabriel Kaufman William T. Hillman Susanna Hong Patrick Janelle Jennifer Joel Mr. and Mrs. David Johnson Christopher and Hilda Jones Hattie K. Jutagir The Kandell Fund / Donald J. Gordon Jeanne Kanders Drs. Sylvia and Byram Karasu Margot Kenly and Bill Cumming Hadley C. King Major General Edward G. Klein, NYNG (Ret.) Kate Krauss Kathryn Kremnitzer Katherine Kwei Polly and Frank Lagemann Nanette L. Laitman Barbara Landau Judith Langer Kate Lauprete Mark and Taryn Leavitt Lexi Lehman Ralph Lemon Brenda Levin Donna and Wayne Lowery Liz MacNeill armoryonpark.org
Alexander Maldutis and Reena Russell Nasr Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Mansour Christophe W. Mao Match 65 Brasserie Mr. and Mrs. Patrick McClymont Melissa Meeschaert Mr. and Mrs. Berk Mesta Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Meyer Laura Michalchyshyn and Richard Gilbert Abby and Howard Milstein Sandra Earl Mintz Valerie Mnuchin Whitney and Andrew Mogavero Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Mordacq Sue Morris Leslie and Curt Myers Nicholson & Galloway, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Numeroff Ellen Oelsner Robert Ouimette and Lee Hirsch Will Palley Mr. and Ms. Joseph Patton Mr. and Mrs. Richard Petrocelli Mr. and Mrs. Brian Pfeifler Mr. and Mrs. Lyon Polk Prime Parking Systems Martin and Anna Rabinowitz Mr. and Mrs. Richard Reiss Diana and Charles Revson Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Roberts Mr. and Mrs. David Rogath Marjorie P. Rosenthal Jane Royal and John Lantis Kathy Ruland Pat Schoenfeld Francesca Schwartz Marshall Sebring and Pepper Binkley Kimia Setoodeh Nadine Shaoul and Mark Schonberger Gil Shiva Mr. and Mrs. Michael Shuman Mary Snow Ted Snowdon Jeremy Snyder and Maggie Nemser Mr. and Mrs. Michael Spies Squadron A Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Steiner Colleen Stenzler Tricia Stevenson Leila Maw Straus Dorothy Strelsin Foundation / Enid Nemy Summit Security Services, Inc. Joseph Vance Architects Mr. and Mrs. John Vogelstein Mr. and Mrs. Alexander von Perfall Amanda and John Waldron Caroline Wamsler and DeWayne Phillips Claude Wasserstein Lauren and Andrew Weisenfeld Christina Westley Ruth Wilson Reva Wurtzburger Mr. and Mrs. Michael Young Michel Zaleski Mr. and Mrs. Adam Zurofsky Anonymous (5) List as of September 15, 2017 * Deceased
ABOUT THE BOARD OF OFFICERS ROOM “The restoration of the Park Avenue Armory seems destined to set a new standard, not so much for its scale, but for its level of respect and imagination.” – The New York Times The Board of Officers Room is one of the most important historic rooms in America and one of the few remaining interiors by Herter Brothers. After decades of progressive damage and neglect, the room completed a revitalization in 2013 by the architecture team at Herzog & de Meuron and executive architects Platt Byard Dovell White Architects to transform the space into a state-of-the- art salon for intimate performances and other contemporary art programing. The Board of Officers Room is the third period room at the Armory completed (out of 18) and represents the full range of design tools utilized by the team including the removal of accumulated layers on the surfaces, the addition of contemporary lighting to the 1897 chandeliers, new interpretations of the stencil patterns on areas of loss, the addition of metallic finishes on new materials, new programming infrastructure, and custom designed furniture.
The room’s restoration is part of an ongoing $210-million transformation, which is guided by the understanding that the Armory’s rich history and the patina of time are essential to its character. A defining component of the design process for the period rooms is the close collaboration between architect and artisan. Highly skilled craftspeople working in wood, paint, plaster, and metals were employed in the creation of the building’s original interiors and the expertise – and hand – of similar artisans has been drawn upon for the renovation work throughout.
The renovation of the Board of Officers Room was made possible through the generosity of The Thompson Family Foundation. Cover photo by Da Ping Luo.